Sawyers Bay (unlocalised), Flinders Island
Geographic information

This locality is in TAS (N), in the general area of Flinders Island, and at latitude 40.0309 (S), longitude 147.9157 (E). Its location (to the nearest 10 km) is shown on the map below. This location lies within the Flinders bioregion.

Species recorded from this locality

The list below shows the species, listed in taxonomic order, for which there are records from this locality in the database underlying these web-pages. Doubtful records have been excluded. Sources are as follows: SJG - Simon Grove records; TMAG - Tasmanian Museum accesssions; QVMAG - Queen Victoria Museum accessions; MHR - Margaret Richmond records; TMNA - Tasmanian Marine Naturalists Association records; OTHER - other sources.

Barbatia pistachia (hairy ark-shell) (TMAG, MHR)

Glycymeris radians (radiant dog-cockle) (MHR)

Brachidontes erosus (eroded beaked-mussel) (TMAG, MHR)

Limnoperna inconstans (variable mussel) (MHR)

Modiolus areolatus (bearded horse-mussel) (MHR)

Equichlamys bifrons (queen scallop) (MHR)

Mimachlamys asperrima (doughboy scallop) (MHR)

Vulsella spongiarum (common sponge-finger) (MHR)

Venericardia rosulenta (rosy false-cockle) (MHR)

Wallucina assimilis (common mud-lucine) (TMAG, MHR)

Mactra pura (white trough-shell) (MHR)

Paphies cuneata (wedge-shaped wedge-shell) (TMAG, MHR)

Soletellina biradiata (double-rayed sunset-shell) (TMAG, MHR)

Merisca margaritina (pearly tellin) (MHR)

Pseudarcopagia victoriae (Victorian tellin) (MHR)

Katelysia scalarina (stepped venus) (TMAG, MHR)

Patelloida alticostata (tall-ribbed limpet) (MHR)

Patelloida insignis (Maltese-cross limpet) (MHR)

Cellana solida (orange-edged limpet) (TMAG, MHR)

Phasianella australis (painted-lady pheasant-shell) (MHR)

Phasianella variegata (variegated pheasant-shell) (TMAG)

Phasianella ventricosa (swollen pheasant-shell) (TMAG, MHR)

Haliotis rubra (blacklip abalone) (MHR)

Granata imbricata (tiled top-shell) (MHR)

Thalotia conica (conical kelp-shell) (TMAG, MHR)

Austrocochlea constricta (ribbed top-shell) (TMAG, MHR)

Austrocochlea porcata (striped top-shell) (TMAG)

Diloma concamerata (tessellated top-shell) (TMAG, MHR)

Clanculus dunkeri (Dunker’s top-shell) (TMAG, MHR)

Clanculus plebejus (people’s top-shell) (MHR)

Phasianotrochus bellulus (beautiful kelp-shell) (MHR)

Phasianotrochus eximius (choice kelp-shell) (MHR)

Phasianotrochus irisodontes (rainbow kelp-shell) (TMAG, MHR)

Astralium aureum (golden star-shell) (TMAG)

Astralium squamiferum (scaly star-shell) (MHR)

Turbo undulatus (wavy turban) (MHR)

Zeacumantus diemenensis (common mud-creeper) (TMAG, MHR)

Diala suturalis (sutured diala) (TMAG, MHR)

Notocypraea angustata (brown cowrie) (MHR)

Notocypraea comptoni (Compton’s cowrie) (MHR)

Bembicium auratum (estuarine conniwink) (MHR)

Bembicium melanostoma (black-mouth conniwink) (TMAG, MHR)

Bembicium nanum (striped conniwink) (MHR)

Polinices conica (conical sand-snail) (MHR)

Sassia verrucosa (warted rock-whelk) (MHR)

Hipponix australis (southern bonnet-limpet) (TMAG, MHR)

Serpulorbis sipho (common worm-shell) (MHR)

Cominella eburnea (ivory whelk) (MHR)

Cominella lineolata (lined whelk) (MHR)

Penion mandarinus (mandarin whelk) (MHR)

Mitrella semiconvexa (semiconvex dove-shell) (MHR)

Pleuroploca australasia (Australian tulip-shell) (MHR)

Nassarius pauperatus (impoverished dog-whelk) (TMAG)

Nassarius pyrrhus (pyrrhus dog-whelk) (TMAG, MHR)

Conus anemone (anemone cone) (TMAG, MHR)

Mesoginella pygmaeoides (pygmy margin-shell) (TMAG)

Pterochelus triformis (three-cornered murex) (MHR)

Muricopsis umbilicatus (umbilicated murex) (MHR)

Dicathais orbita (common cartrut-shell) (MHR)

Bulla quoyii (Botany Bay bubble-shell) (MHR)

Siphonaria diemenensis (common siphon-shell) (TMAG, MHR)




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Information and disclaimer: The web-pages on this web-site are generated from an underlying database. These can be cited as Grove, S.J. (2011). A Guide to the Seashells and other Marine Molluscs of Tasmania web-site and database respectively. Whilst great care is taken to accurately identify specimens featured on this web-site and to allocate all records to the most appropriate taxonomic names available, no guarantee is offered that all identifications are accurate, nor that the taxa to which they have been allocated are currently valid. Commentaries on habitat, distribution and biology are also subject to change as new information comes to light. If you have any enquiries, or any comments that will help improve the content or appearance of these pages, then please follow the links from 'contact' on the left-hand panel.

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